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tlie sea, from Beriiii!- Bay to Litiiya Bay, occasionally travuling in canoes 

 farther west or soutlieast for piuj)oses of trade. On my \isit to Bering- 

 Bay in 1874, I endeavored to get their own name for themselves, bnt had 

 no inteipretei-, and neither the natives nor myself spoke much Chinook, so 

 that I do not feel sure that they understood my inquiries. At all events, 1 

 could get no other answer than "Yakutat", which is evidently the name they 

 give to the country they inhabit, hut must, in all probability, have some 

 other sufHx or termination wlien applied as a tribal name. Their principal 

 settlement is on a large stream, abounding Avith salmon, and emptying into 

 Bering Bay or Yakutat. They fish and trade at Port Mulgrave in the 

 spring before the salmon arrive, and hunt seal near the glaciers of Disen- 

 chantment Bay. The women do not wear the kalushka, or lip-ornament 

 They are said not to adopt the totemic system, so much in vogue among the 

 other T'linkets, and eat the blubber and flesh of the Avhale, which the other 

 tribes of their stock regard as unclean. 



CHILKAHT'-KWAN. 



The Chilkdhi'-kivdn inhabit the valley of the Chilkaht River, which is 

 of moderate size, and falls into the head of Lynn Canal. They are inti- 

 mately related to the inhabitants of Norfolk Sound, and some of them may 

 almost alwaj's be found sojourning at Sitka. They consider themselves, 

 however, a distinct tribe, and have on some occasions been involved in hos- 

 tilities Avitli the Sitka people. They are a wild and untamable people, and 

 said to be ver}- numerous. They trade with the whites on the sea-coast, 

 and with the Tinneh of the interior, by means of numerous small lakes and 

 streams near the head of the Chilkaht River. In all essentials, they do not 

 seem to differ from the Sitkans. 



SITKA-KWAN. 



= Silka-hiav, tbeir owu appellation at Sitka. 



= Antou-l;uan , fide Pinait, for the tribe iu geueral. 



< Silka-kuav, Pinart. 



== CMlgogancs, SandiCort, fide Piuart. 



= Tcliiiikilaiii(HS ul Maicbaud. 



= Silkaii3 of EniKiii. 



